is in a “land where [il] suffered a setback” François Ruffin chose to launch his political comeback, two months after his narrow re-election and his noisy departure from La France Insoumise (LFI). On Saturday 31 August, the deputy reporter returned to Flixecourt, a small town in the Somme valley, located halfway between Abbeville and Amiens. In this red brick town, run by a communist town hall since 1965, he won first place in the 2017 and 2022 legislative elections, making the place the “advanced advice” of its strategy of reconquering the working classes.
Unfortunately, two years later, Flixecourt was also swept away by the wave of the National Rally (RN). Apart from the rain, which fell abundantly, everything was planned for his political meeting, entitled ” Gain “a popular festival. Inflatable balloons, food trucks and bands welcome activists from Abbeville, Amiens and Paris this Saturday, August 31. “There are a lot of new faces, friends from Paris have come. They wouldn’t have done that a year or two ago.” welcomes Pascal, a retired engineer and loyal supporter of François Ruffin.
In front of hundreds of activists who had taken refuge in the Chiffon Rouge concert hall, the founder of Picardie called for the construction of a left “villages and towers”, “neighborhoods and bell towers”so many expressions to describe a France divided in two between the metropolises and the countryside and to draft, without naming it, the accusation against LFI, which he accuses of having abandoned the former working-class lands and rural areas to the RN.
“Facing the extreme right”, The left must not, symmetrically, build other walls, the left must destroy walls, build bridges and build connections.” he urged, referring to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose strategy of “sound and fury” “. “What “racialized people,” Muslims, blacks, may suffer, does not extinguish the individual,” He added, always in response to the founder of LFI, that he focuses on neighborhoods and youth, to the detriment of the rest of the territory.
“The great limits” of the PFN
The theme of the day was the New Popular Front (NFP), even if Lucie Castets, its Matignon incarnation, had refused the invitation. On stage, the former journalist pleaded with the left not to “ reproduce the Nupes”, EITHER “one day we will hug each other” and the next day, “ [on se lance] abuse”. Although France still does not have a prime minister, he said ” convinced “ that it was possible to have “a majority” by project to enforce a certain number of NFP promises.
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